Wire fence



(No Model.)

J. S. MAHER.

WIRE FENCE.

No. 555,823. Patehted.Mar.3,1 896.

wwweaoao llnirnn JAMES SlVEENY MAIIER, OF KENNARD, OIIIO.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,823, dated March 3, 1896.

Application filed June 13, 1894. Serial No. 514,480. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES SWEENY MAHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kennard, in the county of Champaign and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ire Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wire fences.

The object of my invention is to provide for preventing the horizontal wires from being spread apart at places between the posts and also to enable the posts to be placed farther apart, and this object I carry into practice by means of vertical wires placed across the line-wires and held thereto so that the linewires cannot move up and down on the vertical or cross Wires and so that the vertical or cross wires cannot move laterally on the line-wires, the holding means consisting of perforated plates or disks through which the line and vertical or cross Wires are placed, and also additionally of wrapping or holding wires which are Wrapped about the intersecting line and vertical wires and against the perforated plates to aid in preventing the latter from loosing their grip upon the line and ver tical or cross Wires.

In the accompanying drawings, on which like reference-letters indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a panel of wire fence constructed according to my invention; and Fig. 2, a detail sectional view on the line 5c in, looking in the direction of the arrow.

Two posts are shown to which the line-wires B are attached in any convenient or approved manner and are drawn taut by the usual means. At intervals between these posts I place across the line-wires vertical or cross wires A, the distance between them and the number of them being governed by local conditions and the uses to which the fence is to be put varying with the character of stock to be fenced in.

The wires A and B are held together or illterlocked by the gripping action of perforated plates or disksC fashioned after the manner of washers. The perforations in these disks are of such size compared to the size of the Wires A and B that when the latter are placed at right angles after being put through the perforations the disks Will assume an angular position and the wires will bind against the edges of the perforations and cause the disks to grip both sets of wires. This gripping is so severe and intense that the vertical or cross wires cannot be moved laterally by ordinary strains or blows which by chance they may be subjected to, and is so severe that the horizontal wires cannot be moved along the vertical or cross wires by the ordinary or casual strains or blows they are subjected to. But further to insure the rigidity of the structure and to prevent slipping of the wires A and B on each other beyond all question, I provide what Iterm a wrapping or holding wire D,which I wrap around the wires A and B at their intersection, placing it close against the plates or disks and then carrying it down over the lower edge of the disks or plates and along the vertical wire to the next intersection, where I similarly wrap it, and so on to the last wire B, where its end is tightly wrapped around the wire 13. The upper end of the holding-wire is similarly wrapped around the upper wire 13 and may pass through the perforation of the disks or plates on the upper wire. This wrapping or holding wire so binds against the disks or plates and so additionally holds the horizontal and vertical wires that all movement of either on the other is absolutely prevented.

The fence here described. I have built in considerable quantities, and the same is in practical use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wire fence, the combination with linewires and vertical or cross wires intersecting the same, of perforated disks or plates 9 2. In a Wire fence,the combination with line- Wires and vertical or cross Wires intersecting the same, of perforated disks or plates through which said Wires are passed at the points of 5 intersection, said disks or plates standing at an angle and gripping said Wires, and a holding or Wrapping Wire engaging with the disks or plates and acting to additionally bind them against the other Wires.

JAMES SWEENY MAIIER.

Witnesses JOHN KAUFFMAN, CHARLES ROMIVE. 

